The DMCA clearly states that it is illegal to transfer one digital property into a different medium with out the consent of the maker if it is a current product. Meaning if you can still buy it you can't change it into a disk image, a torrent, or whatever. Plain illegal.
Now, EULAs, hardly stand up in court though, which is the funny part. However, acquiring something illegal won't either.
Yes, license keys can be batched to match certain disks. However, to my knowledge it is mainly to markets. A disk purchased in Europe won't work with an American license key. Vista has all sorts of crazy DRM, and with WGA they can also check your build revision (ie, what version of the installer disk you used) versus your product key.
You also won't get an answer from their customer service. Contact their legal department. You realize MS has more lawyers than all of us that frequent this site put together, with the exception of maybe Intel_crazy, since he and his family had an army of lawyer friends.
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